From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 1 12:48:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA19832 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:48:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA19724 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:47:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00672; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 20:45:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA03025; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 20:44:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810011944.UAA03025@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: wwoods@cybcon.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports and elf In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 01 Oct 1998 05:05:56 PDT." <36137024.98936C4C@cybcon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 20:44:01 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am going to be setting up a 2.2.7 -stable box for a friend and was > wondering, if I cvsup the latest ports, will the still build aout ? or > are they all elf now so I need to use the packages ? I would much rather > use the ports. > > Thanks [.....] The ports are smart enough to detect if you're running elf and act accordingly. > ------------------------------ > AOL IM - BSDMAN1 > William Woods - wwoods@cybcon.com -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message